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THE fLCVERS COLLECTION m in PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR TID NOP.TII CAROLINA COS FERENCE, M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. RUFUS T. HEFLIN, Editor. 32.. R&LEiGU, YKMSDAY'&TFGE 6, mi. SI 50 oi Year. Lnx.anci' .frlcrtimis. O r fl, Revive Thy Work." If ever there was c, ti::e when should b? the earnest prayer of every Christian," the burden of every heart, m- arproacmnij UiC tiirone or jjrace ii : . j. ii'.i. . ' ui.ii iiice is nit present, yji uiu necea- i . sdy ot a r vival ui reunion m our hearts and m Church evcrv- branch (here can I uou-'l. jiit; jitccoiity 15 urC!.i, :-i 1:12 .i .: : j. ii. : extreme. - This niu-t he visible when we look at die present condition of the Church, the depressed state, of piety, that, exists especially in this part of the world ; the great lack of moral influ ence exerted by professors of religion, the great want of moral power brought t hj-ar upon the hearts and consciences ot men the tendency there is to for- rnalisai,and to negh itualitv of religion ct the internal spir- How to obviate thiswanl of vitality in the Church ; how the moral power and influence of the Church may be increas ed; how the baptism of the Holy Spirit may be secured and poured out upon the people, are inquiries of such vital importance to the cause of Christianity and the salvation of souls, that they should engross the attention of every minister and member of Christ's Church. To accomplish this great work minis ters should endeavor to preach to the hearts of men. Their understanding h is already been enlightened ; their judgment has already been convinced in regard to the necessity and impor tance of religion, and now there must be something to move the soul, and in duce it to lay hold by faith upon the Savior, as the only name given under heaven, whereby we must be saved. They should go from their closets, or places of secret communion with God, to the pulpit, and preach, as dying men to dving teiiow men, who are hasten- inr with tl m to the solemn scenes of i the judgment, and eternal retributions. ; Thev must preach as those who expect, ' . ' ' m a , mv tn rriv-n r, r.pn.mt 1 for the manner in which they perform ' this great duty. They must "faithfully I warn ererjj man. Souls will be requir- ed at their hands, and if thev have not : faithfully and zealously performed this j give to jonr Maker your first tuouglits, dutv. will not the blood of souls be I lift V'P your heart to him in pray found in their skirts? And how ccn i or, for a blessing upon you during the ... :. i i.: 1A ministers expeet their tiiorts to prove unless preceded and follow- i e-ful bv m el win rnest. faithful p ravs t'nat ! ' ' iaove I lieavea to ir 1 the sinner Xo that h aven is not alrealv raoved wit!i ;: te crTii.!::ss!oi!, In uenau cl a rebellious world n,t 'mat the bowels of God's mercy do not new yearn over the impenitent sinner, but that such is God's own arrangement that lie chooses to make man the honored in- strurneiit in the salvation of 1 man. "He will be inouired s fellow f to do ms rreai thine which attended the i Oi a re- viv and success laKy. i ce' fiun p'ous devoted arms- tor his .rrcat suceess m buii-ding up the ! Church, o-.d winning souls to Christ, became a subject of astonishment in the I Other ministers of the gospel. ! At length, one who was said to possess I supeiur talent and ability, became so ' curious to know the secret of tue good man s success that ne concluded to at- i tend for awhile hio labors and adminis- J trati -.!:-. He did so, but discovered I notiiing remarkaole m his preaching, i ability. in point of talent or mental ability, yet J To this, we reply, that we have nev there sc- med to be a power in it. Sin-; ertheless often known such men to edi ners fell before it. as dead men, crying, j fy the people of God. The excellency 'Save, Lord, or I perish.' Still he could j 0f the power is not in the earthen ves' not solve the mystery. At length he sel ; but 'God hath chosen the foolish ventured to interrogate the minister ; things of this world to confound the himself, in regard to the secret cf his ! wise, and God hath chosen the weak great success. The good man informed him that it was bv laithiul and earnest prayer. He spent regular seasons, day and night, in secret, wrestling with God, for the conversion of men. He was one who felt the burden of the 'Lord resting upon him ;' one who, like his blessed master, wept and prayed much over the lost condition of sinners, and, as a natural result, when he stood be fore his audience to proclaim to dying men and women, life and salvation, his words were attended by the power of God, and fell upon the hearts of sin ners like live coals of fire upon dry stubble. Ilis words glowed with fire from heaven's own altar. 'Words they were that burned.' Pacific Christian Advocate. The Giviasr Deacoa. The following anecdote from the 'Corr,nsiss'on,'the Missionary Magazine of the Southern Baptist Board, was tsld by the Rev. Jr:o. Beck, of Caze novia, N. Y- There was in one of the Northern Statvs, a deacon of remarkable liberal ity. To every benevolent and christian enterprise he contributed with princely munificence. His brethren became n.-hensive that ne reduce h-.m.-eit to poverty. Alter due consulta i"';n, the pastor was appointed to inform the u :ie.on that his brethren thought bins ir,. liberal, and w ished him to cur tail his gifts. The paster entered on the performance of hi? uuty with all .i;,i: delicacy. 'My brother,' Eaid watchful shepherd, 'I am requested your brethren to say to you that ,r fear vou are too liberal, and are an: of bringing yourself and family to poverty. They wish you tc r m.n'fl snnriiu' in vnur crifr.s ' j 'But, replied the deacon; l have ' not yet reduced myself to poverty ; my family are comfortably supported, rnvj and my property is constantly increas- in"; in value. I cannot give less Tj ; jhave been thinking lately that I ought; to give more. I ho pastor found tne i the Christian 1 ueacon corrigioiy oent on uoinggoou, ; t , "'"oiand returned home deeply impressed! no shadow or i .., ., , , r I 1 "71 1 i. 1 ' 1- the words ot the generous man and earnestly meditating on his strong faith and disinterested liberality. Early next morning the deacon saw his pastor approaching with hurried steps: My brother,' said the minister, 'I wa3 wrong, and you were right. The Lord convinced me last night in a dream that you will loose nothing by your liberality. I thought I saw you stand ing on the ocean shore, with a large basket of crackers on your arm. You took out hand after handful of crackers, and threw them into the water. The receding wave quickly bore them out of sisrht, and I thought your crackers would be soon all wasted. But I looked a little while, and saw the rising wave bring them back to vour feet swelled into large loaves.' 'Why,' said the pious deacon, 'this is just what I have been taught in my Bible : Cast thy bread upon the ivaters; for thou shalt find it after many days' My Minister does not Edify Me. We are very sorry for it. We would gladly help him, or help you, if we could, for it is a sad state of things when those who frequent the sanctua- ! ry on the Lord's day, derive no spirit ual profit thereby. Perhaps the difficulty would be re moved if you made a more careful pre paration for the Sabbath, by putting aslU(i juul wumuy uusmcaa c.un Saturday evening. May be you crowd Jour business into that evening, and cari7 the ePirit of the Pasfc vreek over . .1 011.1 ir . 1 1 into tne Daooatn. we nave Known tl"3 to be sometimes done much to the j souls disadvantage Perhaps on opening your eyes on tne sacred light ot the babbaih, you do not u:iJ ; parucuiany, iu,uue uwin.u the public preaching of the word a hvely, and powertul, and enective means of j;race to von. x erhaps you are irregular in your in jour seat there but a part of the day; and when you go, do not go. ar dently desiring a refreshing interview w;tn mm, who meets with the assem- blies ot ms people to uo tnem good. Perhaps you do not pray for your minister. Who hath made man's mouth ? Is it not the Lord ?' And if v he is enquired of by you, to make that muui uitpen.se &ucii iiutu.i m auvii connection, as snau quicKen anu tuuy . you, ne can ana may uo u. The feeblest reed that trembles in tbe breeze, If heaven select it as its instrument, v rour celestial imisic on the ear. And by 'celestial hardly fail to be music' you could charmed and enli- vened. Rut, may be, you say : 'the fault is ' -with my minister ; he is a man of small j wise, things of thb things which world to confound the are mighty, and ba3e things of this world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, things which are not, to bring to naught things which are !' and he hath been pleased, 'by the foolishness of preach ing' preaching which hath been de nominated empty and worthless 'to save them that believe.' There is still hope, then, in your case, and you need not yet despair of being edified by him, who is 'placed over you in the Lord.' As further encouragement bear in mind what the poet Herbet quaintly, but truly says The worst speak something good; if all want sense, Tdd takes a reUxt and preacheth patience. Ha that gets patience, and the blessings which Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pain?. An Infidel Rebuked- An infiilel, boasting in a published letter that be bad raised two acre3 of 'Sunday corn,' which he intended to devote to the purchase of infidel books, he adds : "All the work done on it was done ou Sunday, and it wiil yield some seventy bushels to the acre; so that I don't see but that Nature, or Providence, h:is smiled ui.eu my bunciay wort:, however the priests : Uible may say that work done on that day never prospers. My corn tells another Glory.' To this the editor of an agricultural pnper replies : "If the nuthor of this shallow nonsense had read the Iib!e half as much as he has the worhs cf its opponents, he would have known that the Great Ruler of the uni verse docs not always square up his accounts with mankind in the month of October." Tampering "a Religion. The ti i:e hr-.s fully come when the real ly roiigioiij laari must look well to his fait''. 'i'ceve is a sterner demand for this vigi lance than most Christians appear to ap preciate. The meatis for propagt'tiajr error are no more vast than the :gency is bold and determined fcr the demolition of the truthful and virtuous among men. Our communities are beset with legions of era isrsaries of Sin and Satan, who, to secure the accomplishment of their nefarious pur poses will act covertly or openly, and will make contributions en Christianity or in fidelity, just as capital can be made out of eiiher" II ow shall their evil tendencies be counteracted is a question perhaps, more easily stated than can be practicallj enforc ed. Our christian churches, to whom we naturally turn for hope, are fast losing those old grai.d morals, or practices and habits, which once made the believer in them Ma cular in appearance and peculiar among his fellows. There is no occasion of blink ing the fact jd -alh that a new element, or rather, ibe oid worldly eleme&t, -i.-iixep-inp; iusidiouslv into the communion the body of Christ. We discover it aching with an almost resistless determination to bring down the seriousness and spirituality of the Christian to a conformity with the spirit ajid deceptiou of times. It is so. Wealth, luxury, and fashion, exert a tre mendous influence on society. No sanctity escapes their contagious influence It is seen and felt iu the pulpit, in the pews, and runs from the tower and turret of the church to the foundation stones of the ed ifice. To be religious now, in the full and saving import ol that term, seems to be out of the question, but to be a professor is popu lar, for it aids a man io his business aud skives him more respectable association. The fact is, religion is tampered with to snch an extent in these days, that unless there is a change, the next generation will have no rememberance of the true faith amid the merest flummeries and the vain est pretensions. What is the influence of faith now? How does its elements work in and work out the better principles of the heart among men ? No real and souud reform, which touches the interest and cupidity of society, can be sustained or persecuted. And men rebel with equal effrontery against Gad and truth and hu man government. Weakness and leanness has come on the elect of heaven. The worlllv spirit has tampered so effectually with soiii piety aud growth in grace, that it may truly be said, that iniquity abound ind the love of many waxes cold. There must be a cessation of this tampering with religion. It must not be appealed to to sustain fanaticism, false religion, misrule, scandalous practices, r.tnusemeuts, i;iuces, theatres, and what is evil in lh vain imag inings of men and ministers. 'This is uot its province. Bat rather let ic stand torth ia its piam, nobiaad errand protorli-itis, t.n.l B.inii u-ri-iri iwvnf.ion will bo rot: t-J thy Vi'Ot'iJ, i'Tiu SCtety Will WOiiaOt had 5,0 far and so hng forgotten truth God. Buffalo Advocate. How to Make Money. hut aact Let the business of every body else alone, aud attend to your own; dos't buy what you don't want; use every hour to advan tage, and study to make even leisure hours useful ; think twice before yoa throw away a shilling remember you will have anoth er to make for it ; find recreation overyour own business; buy low, sell fair, and take care of the profits ; look over your books regularly, and it you find an error trace it out ; should a stroke of misfortune come over your trade, retrench, work harder, but never fly the trnck; confront difficulties with unceasing perseverance, and they will disappear at last; though you should fail ii the struggle you will he honoured ; but shrink from the task and you will bo des pised. Act in the same way if you would in crease in knowledge, in grace in manly and Christian virtue. Be careful that nothing be h st that you can turn tc im provement that there be no giving up, no resting without progress, and you will grow in 'durable riches.' Do this, and your old age, should you live to be old, will he ami able, mild, pquable, content. The virtu ous improvement of your time in youth and early manhood, will then show itself in a rich harvest, iu a glory like the even ing of a fine day. The sight of you, long after you have ceased to be active, will be a profitable lesson and a real comfort. You will leave a life behiud you fragrant and pleasing to look on a3 a field of flow ers. Banner of the Cross. The Way to Make a Poor Pastor- 1. Be very careless and irregular in attending church. Never go except when you can find no excuse for stay ing at home. 2. When at church, be either asleep or starring about. Do not listen to the sermon. 3. When you go home, complain of the sermon as light and chaffy, or dry and uninteresting. 4. Treat your pastor with cold and uninviting civility, and then complain of him for not visiting you. 5. Neglect to pray for a blessing on him and his labors, and then complain of him because the Church does not prosper. 6. Be always finding fault with your pastor, and yet regret that he is not more popular with the people. 7. Be very lukewarm worldly-minded, ani2 yet complain of him for want of zeal. 8. Neglect to provide for his-neces-ary wants, and then complain cf him because he wants his salary. Do these things a.nd you will never fail io have poor a Pastor. Never let anger control you. best way is to keep cool. The Eleven Season for not Accepting an In vitation to a Fashionable Party. 1st. Because I ha ve no desire to form intimacies with the fashionable world, to which Christians are forbidden to be conformed, an 1 from which they are 'called to corr.e ont and be separate. "2d. .because as a Christian, 1 ought not ami cpnnoi, find pleasure in the displays of vanity, and in the frivolous conversation of those whose principal maxim is, 'Let us eat, drink, and be merry.' i 3rd. Becajise in such society I might insensibly ijnbibe the spirit of the world, and which a christian is com manded not to cherish. 4th. Because it would induce late hours, and necessarily lead to the neg lect or sleepy performance of family devotions. 5th. Beoaise it would tempt to un due indulgfcj-ie,orvappstite at improp er hi-ais, aiujperhaps kyia taste Joj luxuries that would endanger health and leau to unnecessary expense. 6th. Because I should find few, if any, christians there, and these alone would be my cherished associates. 7th. Because I should give offence to christian brethren, and might be come to them an occasion of stum bling. 8th. Because I can spend my time better at many other places. 9th. Because such company and scenes appear inconsistent with taking up the cros3 and walking in the narrow way. 10th. Because it would encourage and confirm the thoughtless in their sinful alienation from God. 11th. Because I should be very cau tious where I am found, especially as I am forewarned, that in such a day and such an hour a3 I expect not the Son of Man cometh. Obituakies See here ! Look and Listen ! People must die we know that. They cannot avoid it. People do die. But when they are known on ly to a limited circle of friends, what's the use of writing threo or four pages about it, sending thorn here, aivl. expec ting us to insert all that is written to the exclusion of much other matter in which the pcopio generally are more interested ? Especially when so few, if any, beyond the immediate acquain tances, ever read theie notices ? Now, what ir, the use of it ? The writers of such almost always pursue the same strain, and by leaving blanks for the r.a.'iic:.v., cL:.cs, &c, v,-e would rik but little ia stereotyping obituaries. We do net eorumam ahvavs in ad to ac- commodate friends, and willing to dc our best but, if we 'keep cooT lurirg 'dog days,' don't send us obituaries four pages long, and then 'topped off' with a page or two of something called poetry, jingling not much more harmo niously than would two pounds of ten penny nails in a peck basket. Please be short. St. Louis Christian Advo cate. For the N. C. Christian Advocate. Drops in the Bucket. BY JL'NPO NT. SCRUBB, ESQ. The cold winter had passed away, the snows aud frost had all been forgot ten the memory of them was buried with the past. Th doors and windows of the old homestead were thrown wide open to admit the fresh balmy air of early summer. The waving hickory fire in tho wiue fire place had given place to the old famity screen with a picture of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. The homespun carpet had been removed and nice white sand sprinkled over the floor. The martins chattered gleefully on the gourds in the garden corner, and the old hen led her chicks with an air of conscious dignity and maternal pride. Jowler, the watch dog, was dosing in the shade of the mulberry tree. The orchard loaded with fruit and the wheat field beyond the lawn yellow for the scythe, spoke of plenty, while all around whispered of peace. An aged pair sat upon the little porch which beautified their dwelling. The one with pipe in hand was intently en gaged with a small blue covered vol ume, while the fragrant smoke wreath ed curls around his silvered brow. I approached and slyly took a peep at the title of the book, 'Post Oak Cir cuit !' Strange name for a book ! The other person was an aged lady, with a ball of blue yarn in her lap, and with her needles rapidly plied, was finishing a hose. Tho old woi ian turned an enquiring look at hor husband. 'Old man, did nt ha write that he would bo at home to-day ? The protracted meet ing must have closed Thursday, and now its Saturday evening. Surely he'll be at home to night; besides,did'nt brother Gripe tell the folks at Ezel that there' d be a young preacher there to morrow V The old man did not reply, but seem ed in a meditative mood, but from his frequent turnings in tho great arm chair, one could see that hi3 mind was ill at ease. At last be spoke. 'Wife,' stid he, 'I'm afraid that we as a church do not love mercy or deal justly by our prea chers. I never felt it as I have since our boy began to preach. I always thought, the preachers got along tole rably, some how, ind so I suppose they did ; raid but little credit to us is it, ei ther; the Lord be merciful to us. How a mans feelings change about the preachers as soon as his oivn soi is found among them. I've been sick at heart and ashamed over since Jack wrote that letter to us from the last Conference, about how be fired on Beach Swamp Circuit, last year. How poor his mare had got poor Blaze.she was a noble animal and how he had' to buy clothes on credit, and when he left the circuit they paid him 'ninety two dollars and twenty three' cents and told him that it was a hard year and that was as good us they could do for a boy, and a beginner at that, and then I had io end him my spare forty dollars so, that he might go to confer ence like a gentleman out of debt. Poor Jack. And then you know he wrote to us that rich brother Mills had sold a thou sand barrels of flour at an average of eight dollars, and old brother Thresher had raised and sold eleven hundred and forty bushels of wheat, and bro. Prize twenty-four hogrheads of tobacco, and how bro. Black had bought nine ne groes at an average of eight hundred dollars, and sister Shiner a carriage and horses for eleven hundred, and bro. Swellhead had given two parties and a pic-nic, and his daughters wore gold from their ears down to their fingers, and such magnificent silk flounced dresses and crinolines that's some thing I don't understand.' 'I do, old man, they are them gauzy silk things the gals wear on their backs, with two gold breast pins on their shoulders. Polly Gripe had on one last meetin day.' 'Well, maybe they are, old wo- man, but anyhow they cheated poor Jack. And then I've been reading this Post-Oak Circuit. Some folks say it was written by a Dr. Mack some body down in New Orleans, and others that a Judge What-you-call-him, over m Mississippi wrote it, but, l0r my part i do believe it was brother leter lo-;ng8 of a garment as well as taste in anerges, who rode Break Down Circuit , the ra;nd anJ compuuions in the con year before last. Don't you know how j 3C;once he preached at Ezel from this text,. leayty and propriety are strange 'Thoushalt not muzzle th& ox,' and bro. j things when they become a vesicatory, Grips said it was a sermon of 'rotten cx burn, an(j s;ckens at first, but warp and cobweb filling,' but I tiiought j afterwards -hanjres into a cooling unc- it was a powerful sermon. 'You know old woman that he prea ched at Chinkapin Thicket from 'Bring ye the tithes,' &c, ami bro. Ilad-run followed with prayer, a long and very feeling and every body cried. When he prayed the Good Lord to give the preachers souls for their hire in part, but he did'nt say where the other part was to eome from.' Novr here's the very picture of our first Quarterly meeting at the Hawk's Ne3t and exactly what was said and done at the last one at Ezel. Its true he don't call their names but here's a perfect likeness of Brother Gripe for the life of him and if this is'nt an ambrotypeofbrotherHardrunyoumay break my pipe ; and here s a fml length profile of brother Roseneath, and and old woman, I I afraid th.s means me. The Good Lord forgive me if it is me! Here the old man laid down his pipe and book with a sigh which almost amounted to a groan. After a few minutes silence. 'Wife,' said he, 'give me a sheet of foolscap, and tho old goose quill. hy ! VVhat on earth are you going to to do, old man t 'Write a letter.' 'Write a letter ! mercy on us ; you ha'nt writ one in ten years.' I 'Yes, old woman, (sigh) 1 m going to write to brother Peter and send him ten dollars and thank him for writing Post Oak Circuit.' For the N. C. Christian Advocate. Eandom Shots. A REMARKABLE MAN ! The world is supposed' to hold at least one 'remarkable man,' viz : the Editor of a religious news paper. He is a man who possesses talent and edu cation, which are worthless and cost less as he is expected to labor with barely bread enough to keep soul and body from getting a divorce. He must have a subscription, creditable to his denomination, without his agents doing anything, but go to the post office and inquire for 'our paper.' He must pay the Printer'SjInk, paper, &c, bill with out his subscriber's money. He must have a variety of rich com munications, whether his contributors will communicate or not, and a long editorial in spite of sick wife, or hun gry children. He must tell just exactly what sort of an article will suit Bro. Crusty and Smoethmouth, both where they never were known to agree about anything in their live3. He must know how to shut his own and the public's eyes to the defects of Bro. Scribbler's 'piece,' and still 'give it a place,' when it is not fit to grace the door of a distillery. He must know how to stay in his office, and still find out all the news in the land, without any or.e being so good as to inform him. He must know the locality of all the post offices, and the names of all the post masters in the inhabitable world, and all the Bill Joneses and John Smiths apart, and when 'Black Bill Jones' left one neighborhood and went into another, and when 'Little John Smith's' paper did not come to him, and why it did r.c He must know how to make his pa per profitable without advertisements or a great number f subscriber. He must know how to puff, whether con science will puff or not, and still be a candid, truth loving, God like man. He must know how to del end the doc trine of his church without mentioning the subject, especially with point and argument. Ilis head must be a living chronological table in a word, he must be a ready, and an indefatigable oracle oa all ubjcciy and if necessity should require it, ho must know how to feed himself and family on wind, old 'proof and printer's ink. Great man that ! Aint he ? The world had better take care of him. SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS YI2TKGAB, FOR TIIE GANDER. It is a little noticeable that there are a set cf croakers in the world who devote most of their religious conversa tion to the finding fault of Editors, ministers and members particularly, and in general, but when a grave sub ject comes up before the religious press, for reason and investigation, they are ready to turn their abuse and cry with a long horrified countenance iC-o-n-t-r-o-v-e-r-s-e-yV la-c-r-i-monious s-p-e-r e-t! 'abaum-nalle wrangling ! We judge they are sons of the old lady who beat a man for trying to keep her husband from whipping her. But candidly we do think that such fools should be made to straddle Jep tha's ass, and go look w here Toney hid the wedge. "THE CANDOR IN TIIE ABUSE OF FASH ION'." We hear a frreat deal of abuse hean- I e(j upon tll0 prevailing fashion of any j seagon but jt j9 a little strange to tell, many of these very foggies after aw hile forget its deformities and entertain it as quietly as Ahab did the spies. Time is a wonderful water! It can v,agl awa 8;n from t;ie flap3 anj tion. But wo suppose they are like the old lady was by the rye whiskey, they pet after a while so they can 'worry it down.' A WOXDEr.FUL EFFECT IN A CliANClE OF POINTS OF OIlCItVATION. We have often been told of the dif ferent emotions produced by viewing nature's most grand and sublime works, but believe that to be comparatively small, when contrasted with the won derful difference of feeling, excited in man by a different view of tho Kagla on the Almighty Dollar. Wiien men view it approaching wirh pointed beak, and extended pinions, it excites cmo- tinns nf t.hft loftiest, kind. Thpv fororrd. their kin an(l mean Lii:tll) a'n(1 ! the;r own gord; j he.irt an(1 even thcir j molality . an(i 0ften imagine they are itho nn:n.MMn(1. nf Parthlv nm-son- ., . v.. j j j t mcation. xoung uoas on eartn : ijuc just let the 'point of view' be changed, ana let them take a parting view other Majestyo' plumes, and the effect is powerful i Their joy is suddenly turned intn crriof thfir smiles becomft frowns. th -ust ow aiatort with adm;ra. Jwifitr ,n;ni witi ;n tion, violently squint with pain, thcir keen hearing grows heavy to the loud est call, their gaping pockets close and a contraction takes place in their open hearts, that only has its parallel in the shell of a sullen 'highland tarpin !' If you don't believe it, just watch for yourself. MARKSMAN. For the N. C. Christian Advocate. Conference Boundaries. Bro. Heflin : I find in a late num ber of the Herald of Truth, an article from J. A. Reagan, in answer to 'A Mountaineer.' If Brother Reagan possessed other qualifications equal to his conjectural imagination, I think he would make an elegant novel writer. As I am opposed to novels, I am glad he has not turned his attention that way. I see no reason why he could not as easily imagine himself surrounded with myriads of animalcules producing eggs as a meeting house ; as to conjecture things with regard to a brother with whom he has no acquaintance, and that too in disparagement of his moral char acter. We are well acquainted with a Mountaineer, he is a merchant in our village and has been for some time. If brother Reagan will come to Jefferson and form an acquaintance with Moun taineer, we think he will at once admit 'that his surrmsmgs in reference to him have boon evil in the extreme. He shall have an introduction if he will come . But then he says he is in Holston. If it is the Holston River he speaks of, and he is determined to remain there until we hear from him again, we fear he will nerer get here. I am sorry that he and the Herald of Truth have suf fered themselves to be seized with such a panic. If it has thrown one into the River and the other into the dren-'.ful vortex of a fearful ar liens'-- :t may be ""ell to cm mine said in the N. C. C. r r,:i u .lt . TTC lref. Ii::s h-ve not intended -.j n i. there ho.-n .:. propositi., to oune the conference boundari-'r "nU'i wms tho wish of the Methods'- i... u-'di'i 'v concer::'d? lias no i r. Ilk-U vl- mitred thr.tcr"h a pronosi' i"o c.n no harm ? Why . pp N-''d mi.-vhi' then from a discussion ... ' hi d chief v lias bro. ilic'-is changed hi .I'in'i in reference to the Method!? i of V'.'.-.- in N. C, ? Does he begin u " i.t-it State patriotism is at woric in liie hearts of those noble citizens of the old North State ? Does he fear if thia subject is kept before the people that the next General Conference will be memorialized ? The Editor seems greatly annoyed that the Advocate continues to discuss the boundary ques tion. Some persons in Western N. C. sub scribe for the N. C. C. Advocate, in part, on account of that discussion. Shall the subject bo dropped now ? Had bro. Hicks been as willing to have kept out of this controversy at first, as he appears anxious now to tret out of it, he might have saved hiiiirelf much labor and trouble. Broth, rs keen cool, we have known some Con ference lines changed without produ cing ny unusual phenomena in natiir'. Be not alarmed or excited, we may live to see N. C. Methodism utiit'- l. W. .1. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. The Circus. Dear Bko. Hefmn: I smooth up the following for the Anm-atc : G. N. Eldrid's 'great Southern Cir cus' with its attachments if Menagerie, Hippodrome, Big Snake and other dime traps, have just parsed through our State, and carried off money etu uli to have put a Bible, Hytrin Bok and package of Tracts in every h s iu: hovel in the State no doubt of it Well, I wish to ask cv ry Mcth list reader, 'Brother did , go to the Cir cus V I know some of you are bound to answer in the alui ni: f' e. 'Did you curry your son.; and d:',".,ntrrj ? r3 :no of vou arc bound to a yes. to ;h. v.'uh that, too. Isow, wai .o t::ii. you about going o thi'j s-v-ne cl' edness, felly ard vulgai ' jy and I your children with yor. In the firsl place ; til l ;-'.u, wh your bended knots, art ." ibe ! altar, on the morning o i e cirer. your Heavenly Father io smile the visit, and bless it tc tho c.t on lily , ak 'I:.; ,: ,,f your soul, and to th children ? 1 don't reel rather think ycu wo: uls ..! " ur 'ou . I have .ffii ashamed to inc ormtfl M'cli a clan yov.r imuiiiiig'speti:io:i to UieThr Grace. You went, you bought your ti and whcu 'the show' opened you in k your sons and daughters perhaps some of them nearly gtw, into pavil ion. If the tiiought had enter d vur mind then, that God wa3 looking d ,;ui upon you and seeing how wdl yon vcre heeding thz injunction to 'bring up your children in the nurture and a l no nition of the Lord,' don't you think you would have felt badly ? And sup pose a certain solemn vow you o,ico made to 'renounce the devil and all 1 is works,' had occurred to your mind just then, do you think it would have ad h d to your gaycty, or enhanced the ph,;u ures of the occasion ? I reckon pot. How do you feel, now, about it ''. But you sat with your lovely family around you, and listened to, and laugh ed at the low, vulgar wit, and double entendres of the clown, as much as to say to your children, 'this is all very fine, very funny, and very propti.' Why my brother, you paid for, urA applauded vulgarisms and indecent al lusions at tho circus, Unit you would kick a man out of your liou3C for perpe trating before your children at home. Don't yon know you did ? And when yu went home and had gathered your little charge for the eve ning sacrifice, did you remember to thank the Giver of all Good, for tho privileges and blessings of the day, and ask him to bless to the intended object, the money you had that day expended? I reckon you left this out. God foi bid, my brother, that your children should follow your example, if this is the w ay you 'train them up.' Yours, IIARVETUfc. The Inspired Writers. The wri ters of the Bible were brought up ia very different stations. Some wro princes or priests, others v.erc.shephi rd or fishermen; they l-vc-1 iu vaiious places, and wrote at varotts to. us, through a period of 1,0 year:?. They treated on variou:, Lubj.i-'- laws, 1 i.s torv, psaitr.p. prov.rbs, prophreh , bi ography, and lefers e.. loctrh.j ar,d practice. Yet ho-v rtn!.;r'.able is thcir agreerucnt! an 1 how crfu!ly th y support and ilia-:rate each other: all testifying to the x.rne t.u'.h, wi uher relating to Gvd or n.ai r the iw ana of salvation ia type or s'jls;..iiicv. Truth is the characttrU'io of their wri-tir-s; they are faithful in d'c!a:i'.g and in denouiieing jut . c-nt to ' j?q they addressed.
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 6, 1857, edition 1
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